Security experts have cautioned the Nigerian government and the national security agencies not to ignore the recent alarm ...

The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has linked the recent resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in the North ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Extremists have killed dozens of soldiers in an attack on a military base in Mali , civil society and military ...

The latest Most Neglected Crises report on world’s most invisible humanitarian emergencies lists African nations first.

Every year, the Scandinavian NGO publishes a list of the 10 most neglected crises, based on three criteria for what is ...

Timbuktu came under attack and shells were also fired at the airport where heavy gunfire was heard, the army, local officials ...

The Central North Regional Police Command on Sunday rescued seven foreign nationals trafficked under false pretences by a ...

An Al Qaeda-linked jihadist group active in West Africa's Sahel region has claimed an attack on a military base in Mali on Sunday that two sources said had killed more than 30 soldiers.

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — each now led by a junta — left in January, causing the biggest split to the body since its ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has voiced confidence that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger,  the three Sahel nations that recently ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...